Please go to Settings > Reading or wp-admin/options-reading.php If it’s not unchecked it will not allow search engines to reach. For further modification information related to robots you can use the below plugin to modify robots.txt file: Plugin – Multipart robots.txt editor To see your robots.txt file you would visit the link as: http://www.example.com/robots.txt
WordPress search results can depend on your theme or plugins as well. Try enabling the default theme called Twenty Ninteen and then try your search. The default behavior is to search both, posts and pages. However if your theme is changing that you can force the search of pages. In order to search only pages … Read more
You should have the navigation menu with anchors on your page. <ol> <li><a href=”#products”>Products</a></li> <li><a href=”#examples”>Example</a></li> </ol> And the sections with relevant ID where are these anchors are linked to. <h2 id=”products”>Products</h2> After the changes are done, ask google to reindex your page and wait=) Here is detailed description: here
Look for business directory plugins in the WordPress repository.
You can use the plugins Relevanssi or Search Everything and configure them to search custom fields.
What shortcode should I use for
Possible to hide the search engine indexing disabled prompt/error message?
As for the_title(), you can wrap your title in anchor tag, use get_permalink() to get the path to the single post. Something like this will do the_title( ‘<h1 class=”entry-title”><a href=”‘ . esc_url( get_permalink() ) . ‘” rel=”bookmark”>’, ‘</a></h1>’ ); For any info on how to modify/style the_excerpt(), check out this post I have recently done. … Read more
You have to create a php file named search.php. Inside that file, write the code below: <?php get_header(); ?> <?php if( have_posts() ) : while( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?> <article class=”entry”> <header class=”entry-title”> <h2><a href=”https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/172942/<?php the_permalink(); ?>”><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2> </header> <div class=”entry-content”> <?php the_content( ‘Read More’ ); ?> </div> </article> <?php endwhile; ?> <?php … Read more
You can modify any query in pre_get_posts filter. So your code could looks like this: function prefix_modify_search( $query ) { if( $query->is_search && $query->is_main_query() ) { $search = $query->get( ‘s’ ); $search .= ‘*’; $query->set(‘s’, $search); } } add_action( ‘pre_get_posts’, ‘prefix_modify_search’ ); Note that the query parameter is passed as reference so you don’t need … Read more